Senior Data Design Lead

TAL Australia; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

TAL Australia is seeking a Senior Data Design Lead to define enterprise data designs and govern data across operations, analytics and AI-enabled use cases. You will shape modern data foundations, guide rationalisation of legacy assets and establish reusable patterns that reduce duplication while improving interoperability.

Working with business, architecture, governance, product, platform and engineering teams, you will translate strategy into practical design direction, set guardrails, and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in conceptual and logical data designs across complex domains.
• Proven ability to shape shared information concepts, data products and enterprise patterns.
• Experience transitioning legacy data structures to modern scalable architectures.
• Strong knowledge of metadata, lineage, data quality, privacy and security.
• Ability to align senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams on design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data designs translating strategy into conceptual and logical models.
• Establish reusable data products and patterns to improve interoperability across domains.
• Guide data estate modernisation balancing strategic direction with practical delivery.
• Set standards, governance, privacy and security guardrails for initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional alignment with business and technology stakeholders.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Reusable data products

Data modernisation

Data governance

Strategic stakeholder influence

Job description

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we've been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we're helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.

Bring your curiosity, ambition and unique perspective, and help us continue reimagining insurance through innovative thinking, digital capability and a commitment to better outcomes for the people who depend on us.

The Senior Data Design Lead shapes how enterprise data products are defined, structured and connected across TAL, establishing coherent conceptual and logical designs, shared information concepts and reusable patterns that reduce duplication, improve interoperability and enable trusted data across operational, analytical and AI-enabled use cases.

The role develops treatment plans for the rationalisation, modernisation or retirement of legacy data assets, guiding the transition to modern, scalable and governed data foundations.

Working across business, architecture, data governance, product, platform and engineering teams, the Senior Data Design Lead translates enterprise strategy and domain needs into practical design direction, influences upstream solution decisions, and establishes standards and guardrails to ensure delivery aligns with TAL's target-state information architecture while remaining practical to implement.

In this role you will:

• Define enterprise data designs: Translate TAL's strategy and business priorities into conceptual and logical data designs that guide how information is structured, connected and governed across domains and platforms.
• Establish reusable data products and patterns: Define shared data structures and product boundaries that reduce duplication, improve interoperability and support operational, analytical and AI-enabled use cases.
• Guide data estate modernisation: Shape the rationalisation and modernisation of legacy data assets, defining transition designs and sequencing that balance strategic alignment with practical delivery constraints.
• Set standards and assure design quality: Establish design principles and guardrails, embed governance, quality, privacy and security requirements, and ensure initiatives align with TAL's target-state architecture.
• Lead cross-functional alignment: Partner with business and technology stakeholders to resolve competing design priorities, influence upstream decisions and strengthen enterprise data design capability.

Qualifications

• Enterprise data architecture and modelling: Extensive experience developing conceptual and logical data designs across complex business domains, supported by deep knowledge of information architecture and domain modelling.
• Reusable data product design: Proven experience shaping shared information concepts, data products and enterprise patterns that reduce duplication and support operational, analytical and AI-enabled use cases.
• Data modernisation and cloud platforms: Experience transitioning legacy data structures to modern, scalable architectures, balancing strategic direction with practical delivery requirements.
• Data governance and management: Strong knowledge of metadata, lineage, data quality, lifecycle management, privacy and security, with experience in regulated environments desirable.
• Strategic thinking and stakeholder influence: Ability to connect business priorities with data design, communicate complex concepts clearly and align senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams on competing design decisions.

Additional Information

At TAL, we're committed to helping our people thrive both professionally and personally. Depending on your role and eligibility, benefits may include:

• Flexible and blended ways of working that support your work and personal commitments.
• Access to learning, leadership development programs, LinkedIn Learning and global career opportunities through the Daiichi Life Group.
• TAL-funded Life, Income Protection and Total & Permanent Disability insurance, plus employee insurance discounts.
• Wellbeing support including Employee Assistance Program services, wellbeing resources, annual flu vaccinations and health initiatives.
• Additional leave benefits including paid parental leave, wellbeing leave, community leave and purchased leave options.
• Access to TAL Rewards Plus, offering discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and services.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality and maintain partnerships with organisations including Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network and Pride in Diversity. Through our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan, we're also committed to building meaningful relationships, creating opportunities and contributing to positive outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds and are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment experience for all candidates. Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here we're here to support you.